AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE WARRIORS!!!

Outcast by Erin Hunter came out today!!!!

Dawn and I went to Borders after school to go and buy ourselves copies of Outcast. Dawn ran from the car to the store, so I had to run after her. (LOL)We headed directly to the kids' section where the Warriors books are located...and when we got there...THERE WERE NO OUTCAST BOOKS!!!

We FREAKED out and went looking in the New Release section at the front of the store...but the books weren't there either!!!

So we headed to the front of the store to ask one of the Borders people if they knew where it was. The lady looked it up on the computer, but she said she couldn't find anything. So, she headed to the back where the Warriors books normally are and didn't find anything. Dawn looked up the book on another computer, and the computer said that the book was "likely in the store." (DUH...the Warriors website says that the book was coming out today!!!)

Another guy who worked in the store said he'd look for the books for us, since the other girl couldn't find any. Then he asked another lady if she knew, and she said that she'd seen a Warriors book. But the book she saw turned out to be the second manga in the Graystripe manga series.

But...on the same cart...Dawn spotted the word "Outcast" and gave a squeal of excitement...

BECAUSE SHE FOUND THE OUTCAST BOOKS!!!

We grabbed copies and hugged them to our chests and squealed with happiness!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Warriors SSSOOO much!!!

I also found out that the fourth Percy Jackson book is coming out on May 6th, and when I bought Outcast I got a thing for 30% off the hardcover version of Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth when it comes out!!!! EEEEEEEEEEE!!! YAY!!!

I got Dawn into both Warriors and Percy Jackson. She likes cats and Greek mythology.

YAY FOR BOOKS!!!

I love Warriors!!!

Bye!!!

a really really really happy karia_roses

My birthday party rocked!!!

List of people who showed up: Dawn, Tailor, Steven, Ryan, Chantel, Mel, Shannon, David, and Michelle!

Diana didn't make it because she couldn't get a ride to the party.

We watched Jeff Dunham movies. We ate tons of candy. We had pizza for dinner. I opened presents. We ate cake and ice cream. We played games like Twister, Apples to Apples (or something like that), and Catch Phrase. I got lots of pictures of people having fun, and some videos, on my digital camera. We learned weird things about each other while we were playing games. Another game we played was a word game where one person starts a sentence and then each person in the circle adds a word to the sentence. We made tons of funny sentences!

Then most of the people left. Ryan was supposed to leave at ten like all the other guys, but he decided to stay for another hour and watch the last Jeff Dunham movie with us before leaving.

Oh! Before I forget! A list of the presents I got: a Bonsly (Pokemon) stuffed animal from David; Princess Ai and Azumanga Dai Oh manga from Steven; a hair straightener and a little, plastic white faced sheep from Dawn; money from Tailor; money and a book about being Pisces from Ryan and Chantel; a bookbag with the words "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" on the side from Mel; and a set of candles and paper that can be used to create wax seals on letters from Shannon.

Dawn, Tailor, Michelle, and Chantel spent the night. We got out air matresses and lots of blankets and pillows and stuffed animals. We were all very tired, but we talked anyway. I can't remember exactly what we talked about, but it was awhile before we all finally agreed it was time to go to sleep.

The next morning, we all woke up and went into the living room to play Apples to Apples again while my parents, my brother, and Ryan (who showed up to pick up Chantel) watched the second Jeff Dunham movie. We had breakfast of eggs, toast, and breakfast burritos...all cooked by my mom.

It was around one o'clock when Dawn decided it was time for her, Tailor, and me to head out and go shopping!!! We're going to an anime convention in May and we went out shopping for our costumes. I didn't look for anything because I pretty much already have my costume, and I didn't have that much money with me anyway. Tailor kept finding things for a costume that was her second choice, and I told her she was getting subliminal messages that she should go as her second choice! It was creepy because we'd head into a store and Tailor would find another part of the costume that was her second choice! It was creepy!!!

And that was my birthday weekend!!!

Not much else has happened since then, other than yesterday when...

I GOT MY SHEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Romeo is SO cute! Yes, I named him Romeo! Casey and his dad brought the two lambs to our high school's FFA school farm. My dad and I went and picked up Romeo and brought him home. Dawn is keeping her lamb (whose name I do not officially know yet) at the school farm. My dad and I spent almost all day Friday cleaning out the sheep pen because it had been overtaken by grass and weeds since it was last used.

My parents are thinking about getting us a goat or two to keep Romeo company! My mom says she feels bad having just one sheep, so we're going to look into buying some pet goats!!! HOW COOL IS THAT???

YAY!!!! I have my sheep now!!!!!!

Buy buy for now!

a happy karia_roses

Okay, I'll just go through as much as I can remember it!

Friday: My parents, brother, and I went down to my grandma's house. I got to decorate my birthday cake with chocolate frosting and pretty blue roses made with frosting. We colored eggs with some of our family members. I drew a bat on one of my eggs! It was wicked looking!

Saturday: We celebrated Easter. The family came over. We had dinner. I got to open my presents. I got $215 and a $20 gift card to Borders!!! Booya! My uncle opened his presents, and then we ate cake! A while after the cake, the Easter baskets were passed out to everyone and I started to eat candy. The little kids got those wooden paddles with the strings on them attached to rubber balls. One year old Evan found out how to use the paddle and kept accidentally hitting people with it.

Sunday: We went to church with my grandma and had lunch at Wendy's. Then we headed home.

Monday: I went with Dawn to Casey's house again to see the baby sheep. They grew SO big! The little ram is huge now! We were able to catch all three of the babies so that we could get a closer look. The little ram is a handful, but I think I'll be able to deal with him. Dawn decided she will probably pick the bigger of the two ewes because she looked better in our opinion.

Once we finished wrestling with the baby sheep in the mud, we hung out for a while. Casey's dogs got into a fight and two of them got hurt, but it wasn't anything serious. His mom cleaned up the dogs and they settled down. After that, we watched an anime that is six episodes long. It was a very weird anime. Dawn laughed because I kept making funny faces.

When I got home, I learned my brother had been throwing up since he'd gotten home from his track practice. Turns out that he'd gotten it from the rest of the family while we were visiting. I had really hoped that I wouldn't get it.

Tuesday: Guess what? I woke up Tuesday with the flu. Thank goodness it was NOT the barfing flu, though! I got it out the other end of my body. I was not a happy camper all day Tuesday. Who CAN be when they're running to the bathroom every few hours?

Wednesday: My mom was diagnosed with bronchitis. She developed it after she had the nasty cold that my dad had.

Friday: My mom and I went shopping to get party supplies. Tablecloths, plates, napkins, candy...all the things I need for one of my birthday parties! Yay!

People have RSVP'd now! Here is the list. I'll say after each person if they are coming or not! Refer to my last post if you can't remember who these people are.

Dawn = Of course she's coming!!! She's spending the night, too.

Cassidy = He couldn't make it. He went out of state to visit his grandmother.

Tailor = She's coming and spending the night.

Steven = I haven't heard from him yet.

Ryan = He said he's coming for a few hours.

Chantel = She's coming and spending the night.

Mel = She is coming, but I don't know if she's spending the night.

Shannon = (Mel's best friend) She is coming, but not spending the night. This is the first time she is coming to one of my birthday parties!!! She's never been able to make it to my past parties.

Shannon = She couldn't make it because she is working.

Ali = She couldn't make it because she came down with pink eye.

Diana = She can make it, but she can't spend the night.

David = He said he was coming.

Michelle = She's coming, but I don't know if she's spending the night.

Casey = He can't make it because he's out of town on a ski trip.

So, the know-for-sure people are: Dawn, Tailor, Ryan, Chantel, Mel, Shannon, Diana, David, and Michelle! Yay!

OMG!!! Two days ago, I got a huge pimple on the side of my nose!!! It's a killer zit! Run for your lives! I can't help staring at it when I see myself in a reflective surface. I...want...to...pop...it! But then it'll leave a huge red mark on the side of my nose! I hope it'll be mostly gone by tomorrow so that nobody will notice it! Why me?!?!? Why now?!?!? I hate pimples!!! Please, God, make it go away by tomorrow!

Okay, I'm done talking. I will update the soonest chance I get!

Buh-bye!

an elated karia_roses

Pretty cool picture, huh?

This is Echo, one of my original characters for a fanfiction I'm writing based on The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. If you haven't read the series, I definitely suggest you do.

The series is about a boy named Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, who find a secret, hidden world miles below New York City. In this world, called the Underland, there live giant rats, bats, mice, cockroaches, ants, and a race of humans with skin so pale that you can see their veins. There are other giant creatures in the Underland, but you'll just have to read the series to find out what they are! The books are (in order): Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw.

As for Echo, she is the bat bond of Jason Wolf, a runaway "Overlander" who lives most of his life in the Underland now. Jason and Echo are "bonds," which means that the two of them took an oath to protect each other despite anything they might encounter.

Echo is not the only original character in my fanfiction, though. There's Capella, a ginger bat with dark brown markings who later bonds with Angela King, the main character of the fanfiction. The bats Artemis (a female) and Apollo (a male) are twin siblings. My other OC character is Crimsongash, a rat. I have pictures for most of them, but I don't want to swamp this post with a bunch of pictures!

That's what I've been doing lately story-wise. As for the rest of my life, I had a birthday yesterday. Eighteen! Booya! I'm officially an adult now!

What did I do for my birthday? Not much, actually.

Dawn brought me a Happy Birthday balloon that I had to carry with me around school, so EVERYONE knew it was my birthday! Right after school, I went to get a "surprise" in the office. It turned out to be a bouquet of flowers in a glass vase with a little Beanie Baby sheep attached. The poor sheep got wet because someone put WAY too much water in the vase. I had to poor out some of the water so that I could get into Dawn's car. After that, Dawn and I went to her house and watched Jeff Dunham movies. (He's a hilarious ventriloquist!) Dawn's mom gave me $30 for my birthday. I was SO happy!!! My mom picked me up and we headed home. I had sausage rolls (mmmmm!) for dinner with breaded cheesesticks. It was SSSOOO yummy! During dinner, I watched a taped episode of Law and Order with my parents. After that, I read until it was bedtime. Not a very exciting birthday, huh? I was content, though.

Tomorrow (Friday) my mom, dad, brother, and I will be heading to my grandma's house to color eggs with the family. Saturday the family will get together and celebrate Easter with baskets full of CHOCOLATE! YAYAYAYAY!!! I love chocolate! We'll also be celebrating my birthday (PRESENTS!!!!) and my uncle's birthday. Sunday we'll come home...and then my brother and I get the rest of the week off! I don't know WHAT I'm gonna do! Monday, Dawn and I might go and have one of our FFA advisors check out the sheep that we're gonna get from Casey. Then, Saturday the 26th...I'll have another birthday party!!! I invited a bunch of my friends, and I hope they can all come! Here's who I invited: Dawn, Cassidy, Tailor, Steven, Ryan, Chantel, Mel, Shannon, Shannon, Ali, Diana, David, Michelle, and Casey! Who are these people???

Dawn = my BESTEST BEST friend

Cassidy = Dawn's boyfriend

Tailor = a friend who reminds me of a younger me

Steven = a guy in my Astronomy and Economics classes

Ryan = the son of my mom's best friend (known him since 6th grade)

Chantel = the daughter of my mom's best friend (known her since 6th grade)

Mel = a girl in my AP Stats and Economics classes

Shannon = my friend and Mel's best friend (known her since 9th grade)

Shannon = a friend (known her since 6th grade)

Ali = a girl in 10th grade who is in FFA with me (Diana introduced me to her last year)

Diana = Mexican girl in my Photography class (known her since 9th grade; she's been in one of my classes all 4 yrs of high school!)

David = my ex-boyfriend (the breakup was mutual, so we're still friends)

Michelle = a goofy girl who sadly isn't in any of my classes (known her since...uh...junior high maybe???)

Casey = a guy Dawn and I met at the local fair last year (Dawn and I will probably be getting our sheep from him)

And those are the people I am inviting! YAYAYAY! I can't wait!!!

As for whatever else I've been doing...I came down with a stuffy nose/sore throat!!! I'm happy that it comes in the early morning and leaves by around 10:00 in the morning. I hope I get over it soon, though!

I've signed up to go on the Astronomy Field Trip!!! We're going to a astronomy museum in a town near Las Angeles. It's a couple hours on bus. Steven is going to be going, too. I hope he'll sit with me on the bus, or I'll get stuck next to someone I won't want to talk to. Yay for Astronomy!!! (The trip is the birthday present from my parents...it was $125 to go! I'm saving up the $50 I got from my grandparents and the $30 from Dawn's mom to pay for souvenirs and snacks on the trip!)

That's all I can think of right now!

a bouncy karia_roses

It's Friday. Can I say "yippy"?

::cricket::cricket::

I guess not...

Well, I'm not all happy-go-lucky today because I've been sick since Tuesday night! I'm going to have so much work to do when I get back to school next week. I hate being sick! And Holly and Bandit (the dogs) aren't much help, either. All day long they're in-and-out and in-and-out and growling at each other and pouncing on me and blah blah blah. My mom has been sick as well, so she's been having to deal with the crazy dogs, too. Basically, all Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday my mom and I did practically nothing.

We slept.

We watched television.

And I read.

Oh, and we drank tons of Gatorade and water.

Talk about a boring week!

Dawn called me Tuesday because she was concerned because I wasn't at school. I called her today to ask her if she could pick up something at the school office for me, but it turns out that she's sick AND she twisted her ankle on Wednesday during her Winter Guard practice. So, yeah, she's way worse off than I am with an achy body flu.

That is basically all that I have done this week. Pretty boring, huh?

achy, coughing karia_roses